kingdom

Working as a photographer since 2000, I have been lucky to have travelled and photographed extensively around the UK. Interested in the rich accumulations of environment, I have always been drawn to scenes that give a sense of the country’s deep weave. Scenes that capture the significance of homes, industry, infrastructure and landscape. The features and relationships that underpin, sustain and characterise a country. I started working in earnest on this series around 2014 when the Scottish independence referendum followed by Brexit quickly pushed nationhood into becoming a very pressing issue. The photographs take a broad ranging look at the accumulated environment of the UK; its long history and tradition, its development and absorption of change, its social links and boundaries, the common bind of its landscape. Part of the thrill of shooting this series is drawing threads of connection between these things. At a precarious historical time for the UK ‘kingdom’ looks for a perspective on the country which reaches beyond the current politicking.

Sark, Channel Islands

Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent.

The Natural History Museum, London.

Homes & Walney Channel, Barrow-in-Furness. Cumbria.

Contisbury Hill, North Devon Coast.

Wind farm, English Channel.

Corporate offices, London.

Services floor of 52 Lime St./The Scalpel, London.

Garden roof, 120 Fenchurch St. London. 

Isle of Arran.

Clouds & fields, Essex.

Bishopsgate & 20 Fenchurch St./Walkie-Talkie, The City, London.

Whitechapel High St. London. 

Road signs, Saxondale Roundabout. Nottinghamshire.

Isle of Wight passenger ferry, The Solent.

Bathers, Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire.

Container ships, English Channel.

Power station, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

Knock Castle, Largs, Ayrshire.

WW2 Pillbox, Wiltshire.

Old oak, Wiltshire.

Young Oak, Wiltshire.

Corporate buildings & Civil Justice Centre, Hardman Sq. & Spinningfields, Manchester. 

The Arc shopping centre, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.    

Sightseeing bus and Georgian architecture, Bath, Somerset.

Amusement Park, Greater Manchester.

The English Channel.

Isle of Arran. (Ceisteal Abhail & Goats Fell).

Suffolk coast & Deben river. (between Felixstowe & Bawdsey)

Land decontamination, Sth Wales.

Saxondale junction. Nottinghamshire.

Terrace housing, Newport.

Landscaping & passenger ferry, Gourock, Firth of Clyde.

The Thames, London.

Offshore wind farm, Barrow-in-Furness. Cumbria.

Homes, Bath. Somerset.

St. Pauls and City buildings from a new build, Ludgate Hill, London.

The London Eye and Waterloo Railway Station, London.

Funfair, Cardiff Bay.

20 Fenchurch St. seen from 52 Lime St. London.
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